Compare the receptions received by Pres. Trump at a Washington Nationals World Series game in Washington, DC, on Oct. 28, 2019, and the college football national championship game in New Orleans between LSU and Clemson on Jan. 13, 2020, about 10 weeks later. Watch the 2 videos for the night-and-day reactions. He gets booed and is subjected to chants of “lock him up” in DC while he experienced sustained cheers and applause from a mostly Louisiana and South Carolina – hotbeds of Red America – crowd in New Orleans.
Washington, DC, Oct. 28, 2019
New Orleans, La., Jan. 13, 2020
Let’s dispense with the nonsense that there is no severe politico-cultural divide in America. It exists, and boy does it exist! I attribute the phenomena to a resurgence of a semi-violent, bombastic radical left alongside the rise of a provocateur on the right, Trump. Make no mistake about it, though, this unhinged left had been around since the 1960’s and has wormed its way into the corporate boardroom, faculty lounges, all avenues of our media, academia, and is resplendent in the training of our teachers and our kids’ curriculum. Few of our kids’ schools escape its tentacles. The cities and coasts are the nests for this myopic and revolutionary collectivism, and can be dubbed “blue” America.
Outside the blue bubbles of the cities and the coasts resides the vast stretches of Red America. Do our self-anointed cultural betters in their urban blue bubbles know how out-of-step they are in relation to the rest of the country? Red America certainly knows about them since the “blues” control the cultural commanding heights. If the “blues” know about their estrangement, I don’t think that they care.
RogerG